Making `wget` not save the page

wget

I'm using the wget program, but I want it not to save the html file I'm downloading. I want it to be discarded after it is received. How do I do that?

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You can redirect the output of wget to /dev/null (or NUL on Windows):

wget http://www.example.com -O /dev/null

The file won't be written to disk, but it will be downloaded.

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There are very good answers in this question, be sure to check them out, but what I've done is this:

wget [wget options] 2>&1 | grep -i "failed\|error"

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You might also try HTTrack which has, IMO, more flexible and intuitive include/exclude logic. Something like this...

httrack "https://example.com" -O ExampleMirrorDirectory \
"-*" \
"+https://example.com/images/*" \
"-*.swf"

The rules will be applied in order, and will override previous rules...

Exclude everything
But include https://example.com/images/*
But exclude anything ending in swf

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